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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. i. APBIL JUDO*.

In Crane's 'History of St. Catherine of Siena ' we find that she objected to even musty corn being wasted. "Will you cast that away that God hath sent for the sus- tenance of man?" she said, and is reported to have worked a miracle to make the bread of this corn good for the poor (p. 201).

Sir Charles Fellows, in his ' Travels in Asia Minor,' writing of Phrygia, says (p. 104) that

"as soon as the tray was removed, the carpet was swept, lest any crumbs should have fallen, it toeing a religious law never to tread on food."

The oath by grass and corn seems to have Leen regarded as a very solemn one, as appeal- ing to corn, the chief need of man, and grass, that which sustains his servants of the brute creation. It occurs in the ballad of ' Young Huntin ' :

And she sware by the grass sae green,

Sae did she by the corn, That she had na seen him, young Huntin,

Sin yesterday at morn. W. E. Aytoun's ' Ballads of Scotland,' ii. 69.

.Another version of this ballad, containing the above lines, occurs in Scott's ' Border Minstrelsy,' under the name of Earl Richard.

EDWARD PEACOCK. Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

THE GERMAN REPRINT OF LEIQARRAGA'S BOOKS. (See 9 th S. xi. 64, 112, 191, 276, -393.) The Editor having been kind enough to recommend to the "confidence" of his readers (9 th S. xi. 140) my reprint of Leigar- raga's translation of St. Matthew's Gospel, I feel bound to point out that I stupidly allowed some of the " Faults committed in the Print " (.as they are called in 'The Historieof Tithes,' 1618) of the original to be reproduced in that Gospel, as well as in the Oxford reprint of the rest of the New Testament. In another edition they must be corrected by reading as follows : p. 9, v. 2, guenean; p. 19,V. 16, agueri zaiztengat ; p. 38, v. 7, ciradela has ; p. 58, v. 29, cedin Galileaco ; p. 79, v. 12, lain- coaren; v. 15, haourrac; p. 80, v. 22, recebi- turen ; p. 90, v. 28, zarezquiote iusto ; p. 399, v. 36, nire; p. 344, v. 33, vicitze eman draucana; p. 361, v. 26, citic hire; p. 376, v. 36, egague Arguia; p. 378, v. 3, guciac ; v. 5,_ uric ; p. 395, v. 4, ciraden ; p. 397, v. 22, -officieretaric batec, present cela, cihor ; p. 608, v. 1, 9areten ; p. 688, v. 1, areten.

Some of these mistakes of the first, second, and third editions are not mere misprints, but oversights of the translator, conflicting with his own usual practice and the laws of his language. Some of them have already been ^pointed out in my statement published in the

Annual Report of the Trinitarian Bible Society for 1903, of which an amended off- print of 100 copies was distributed last November.

The Royal Academy of Sciences of Holland has very graciously promised to publish this month my ' Analytical Synopsis of the 281 Forms of the Verb which occur in the Epistles to the Ephesians and the Thessalonians ' in Leigarraga's translation. With the excep- tion of the Acts of the Apostles, all the hitherto unprinted parts of this laborious task are ready for press, and awaiting the benevolence of individuals or societies having funds for such unremunerative contributions to comparative grammar. It was undertaken to prevent any one from saying again of Baskish, in the words of Psalm Ixxiii., "Then sought I to understand this, but it was too hard for me." E. S. DODGSON.

CAPT. WOGAN. I suppose it is too late in the day to attempt to open the eyes of those who take their information regarding Scotch history from Walter Scott. But I would like to draw the attention of unbiassed readers to the extraordinarily inaccurate allusions to the above personage in Scott's ' Waverley.' Wogan is first mentioned in this novel as " the gallant Capt. Wogan, who renounced the service of the usurper Cromwell to join the standard of Charles II., marched a handful of cavalry from London to the Highlands to join Middleton, then in arms for the King, and at length died gloriously in the royal cause." His march took place in November- December, 1653, and he went to join Glencairn in the Highlands, and died late in January or early in February of 1654. Middleton was not then in Scotland, but arrived some time about the end of February of the same year. So that Wogan's career was at an end before Middleton appeared on the scene (Gardiner, ' Commonwealth and Protectorate,' ii. 403, 407). Nor is it the case that Wogan renounced the service of Cromwell to enter on this march. He had deserted the Parliamentary service to join the Scotch army which invaded England in 1648 under the Duke of Hamilton (Carlyle, ' Cromwell,' ii. p. 198) ; and had since then done service in Ireland. He now started from Paris to make his way through England to Scotland to take part in the insurrection there. In chap. xxix. we are told " he had originally engaged in the service of the Parliament, but had abjured that party upon the execution of Charles I." As already pointed out, Wogan had left the Parlia- mentary service before the death of Charles I. We are next told that " on hearing that the